Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.

Wealth is the sinews of affairs.

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

It is too often forgotten that the gift of speech, so centrally employed, has been elaborated as much for the purpose of concealing thought by dissimulation and lying as for the purpose of elucidating and communicating thought.

We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it.

To dare to be aware of the facts of the universe in which we are existing calls for courage.